Re: [squid-users] Caching Expired Objects

Hi Henrik,
since you say so, I have rather been toying with the
idea of saving these supposedly expired objects in an
apache document root and using the url_rewrite of the
squid to fetch the objects from my apache server. I
hope the bandwidth savings will justify the bandwidth
cost in repopulating the apache with these objects.
Its about bandwidth!

Regards,
solomon.
 
--- Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
wrote:

> On tis, 2007-09-18 at 02:55 -0700, Solomon Asare
> wrote:
>
> > This is the exact problem I have that I am trying
> to
> > resolve, not querry string issues. If only I can
> > overide the lack of Last-Modified, Etag and not
> > meeting minimum_expiry_time conditions.
>
> There would be no use doing so. All you would get is
> more disk I/O as
> Squid would be unable to reuse the cached copy on
> the next request.
>
> Without a cache validator you MUST assign freshness
> to the object for it
> to be of any use.
>
> Think of it, what do you want Squid to do with the
> expired object if it
> can not check if the object has changed (validator
> required), and you do
> not allow it to consider the object as fresh?
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Tue Sep 18 2007 - 10:25:16 MDT